Adding an Executable to JFrame

[Sagar Chin]

Hi ,
I am trying to call an EXE file from a Button Action using getRunTime.exec("abc.exe");
It opens the exe file fine, but i want this to open inside JFrame or JDialog or any Swing Component.
Could any one please let me know how to do this.

Thanks in Advance

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to JavaRanch

You could try diverting the output and error streams from the Process and displaying that output on a JTextField or even a JLabel.

Don't know whether that will work, and other people will have good ideas too.

[Sagar Chin]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Actually it's a calculator in the .exe file format.
I should be able to open that calculator in any of JDialog,JFrame etc so that i can use the calculator in my application.
My Application runs in Full screen mode and this calculator dialog should pop up in a Dialog when the application is still in full screen mode.

Please let me know if there is any solution

Thanks

[pete stein]

Chinnari Sagar wrote:
Actually it's a calculator in the .exe file format.
I should be able to open that calculator in any of JDialog,JFrame etc so that i can use the calculator in my application.
My Application runs in Full screen mode and this calculator dialog should pop up in a Dialog when the application is still in full screen mode.

I'm no expert in this, not by any means, but it sounds as if you may be asking Java to do something it wasn't built to do. Perhaps this could be done using a C program then meshed with Java via JNI, but it wouldn't be easy. I'd be interested to hear if one of the experts has any other ideas. Best of luck.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Cynical answer. "Teacher told me to create a calculator in Swing. Windows already has one so I'll avoid the work by putting it in my JFrame".

Short answer to your question is you can't. I'm sure there is some long winded way, as Pete suggested, to do this, but this is beyond the basic design and premise of Java and Swing. If you want a calculator in your swing app, find a swing calculator or write one yourself.